AMEN!!!... AMEN!!!... I could not have said that better. I am not going to
be led to slaughter, this is exactly what the consumption and chamber market
hopes to achieve.... a bunch of brain dead Americans who are controlled by
consumption driven media. It all goes back to what I said in the
begining.... PEOPLE DON"T KNOW HOW THE EARTH WORKS!!!... For those that DO,
and still don't care..... I cannot excuse this mentality... I think it's a
whimpy cop out to surrender your values to the consumption driven media and
markets. How can anyone who has a passion for our natural heritage belive
otherwise.....

>From: Noturus_at_aol.com>Reply-To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net>To: nanfa_at_aquaria.net>Subject: Re: NANFA-- choices>Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 10:36:05 EDT>>In a message dated 9/9/00 1:00:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time, >thirdwind_at_att.net>writes:>><< Excuse me while I put on my headband and sandals and pick up my guitar >and> sing... "Don't it always seem to go, you don't know what you've got til >it's> gone. They paved paradise and put up a parking lot." :-) >>>>Put'em on bro.... I have to agree with you 100%. I scares the hell out of >me>when folks start in on "we shouldn't be regulated....it's our right to do>this....it's my land too!" True enough, it is your land, but it's mine>too!...and I want at least some of it to remain in working order!>>Moon, I lived on the NC coast for years. I almost cry when I go back now>after just 20 years. I don't object to anyone using the beach. I can even>live with responsible 4 wheelers doing so. But what happens when 10,000 of>them decide it's their right to go 4-wheeling on the beach. It gets to be a>mess pretty quickly. Like I said, I don't have problems with people using>resources like this carefully....but at some point, there has to be>regulation....perhaps restricting the number of daily users...I don't know.>Like everything, there are tough choices.>>Loggers....I shouldn't even start here! I see the effects of clear-cutting>almost every day in my work. But, logging is a fact of life and my computer>is sitting on a nice wooden desk! That doesn't mean that we should accept>logging of old growth forests! These few left should be left alone...end of>story! There are other sources of wood out there.>>Around here, environmental groups like to butt heads with the Forest >service>over timber harvest. It usually gets them nowhere! When we have problems >with>the way something's being done, we try to talk to them. We suggest better>times of year to make cuts (not when the madtoms we're working with are>spawning!) We make suggestions as to certain areas that should receive more>attention....more care. We ask that if they have to cut a road that it be>done in the least damaging way at the best time of year (ie...not in spring>when heavy rains will wash mud down on spawning fishes!). You know>what....more often than not, they're receptive to suggestions! Not many>reasonable folks are saying NO MORE LOGGING. That's just the cry the >logging>industry likes to promote.>>And about all this being a waste of time anyway because we're all>doomed........you may be right! Probably are!....but I don't have to think>like this. I don't want to be the lamb being led to slaughter! I'm going>kicking and screaming! And if I can help protect a given stretch of river >or>help save an endangered species (even if just forstalling the eventual!), >I'm>gonna do it. If for no other reason than it makes me feel good!>>Better step off my soap box before I get in (more) trouble!>>j.r.>>/----------------------------------------------------------------------------->/"Unless stated otherwise, comments made on this list do not necessarily>/ reflect the beliefs or goals of the North American Native Fishes>/ Association">/ This is the discussion list of the North American Native Fishes >Association>/ nanfa_at_aquaria.net. To subscribe, unsubscribe, or get help, send the word>/ subscribe, unsubscribe, or help in the body (not subject) of an email to>/ nanfa-request_at_aquaria.net. For a digest version, send the command to>/ nanfa-digest-request_at_aquaria.net instead.>/ For more information about NANFA, visit our web page, >http://www.nanfa.org

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